Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1887-06-23
FOR lIONOR'S SAKE.
BY b. L. FARJEoN.
Author OF "Grcdt Porter Square, "Yy,,
Fright Star Of Life, &c.


r RI II-cR PrER I-Coxrt@,rr,
Yet it ia very simple" said tho LAWYER.
LET rs suppose. in illustration, that nm
this lady's husband. For reasons into
which IL IL not necessary here 10 enter |
resolve To make awny with my wife hv
administering to her an overdose of these
poisonous narcotics, an,f naeuraIlv rc-
solve that her death shall lie acco,nplishc,T
IN such y manner rs TO avert TO some ron
sonahle extent suspicion from myself I
80 INTO her bedroom It midnight Our
relations, as has bccn proved, are not Of
;he most amiablc Kind We are not IN,
love with each othcr-quitc the reverse
and have been living from the first dav
OF our marriage on unhappy life.
Indeed, my unhappy life i'm relation
10 the lady commenced when | WINS
engaged To her. Wei. 90 into her room
~ midnight, resolved 10 hrinl, nbout her
death. She complains that she cannot
sleep, and she asks me TO give her a NOR
phia lo5enge from the bottle | suggest
that 1t may moro readily produce sleep it,.
Instead of allowing il 20 dissolve slowly I'm
her mouth, she will drink il off Mt once
dissolved in water. She consents Itake
from the table the bottle, the dccanter of
water and the glass; / empty secretly into
the glass the eight or ten or dozen luzcnCts
winch the bottle contains; / pour the water
from the dccanter Into the glass and tell
my wife to drink IL OFT Immediately. She
does 50 and sinks into Slumher, oycrpoyv-
cred by siecS from which she will
never awnkc. Perhaps sl.c struggles
against the effects Of the terrible dose 7
have administered her, but her struggles
are vain. She lies before me I'm sure an
preaching death, and both She and have
escaped from the life which has been n
continual source of misery To us Tho
decd being accomplished what do /. tho
the murderer, do' TLcr2are no evidences
If n struggle; there have been no cries
10 alarm The house; what has been accom-
ptishcd has been well and skillfullv nc
compiished, aud | am the only actual
living witness against myself What
then, repeat, is my course of
nctiony Before | Killed her re-
moved the bottle, the glass aIil the do
canter from the table by the bedside.
wish IL tO be understood that she herself
IN III OF delrum, caused her own death.
This theory would lie be utterly DESTROYED
II ! allowed the glass from which tic
poison was taken To he found nj spI,c dis
tafce from the unfortunate ladv's bed
SIDE. Very carefully, therefore | place
noe only that, but the dccantcr which
coat;,incd the wntor, and She bottle
which contained the lozcnccs. within
prrcauiiun Srould be suicidal, and to NV
mind, absolutely untcnable in rational
action under such circumstances Doyou
sec, now, why the circumstance Of tho
glass being found on the mantcl shelf is a
proof OF my iunocenccFr
Yes" replied DT. Daincourt, ~ rec
aSnizo the strength Of your thcory-un-
less, indeed, you had in your mind the
Idea that il would he better to throw sus-
pioion upon third person; say, for the
sake OF argument, upon tho maid
THAT view" said the lawyer. dc
molishcs itself, for what L would natur-
ally do TO divert suspicion from myself, n
third person would naturally do TO avert
suspicion from him or herself
True, y said DIR. Daincourt; "you seize
vital points more readily than l. Have
you any theory about the strange lady
who accompanied Layton home from Pre-
Nost 5 restaurant
Il have theory upon the point" re-
Piled the lawyer, which, however, Mt
present is so vaguc and Unsatisfactory that
1t would be folly To disclose it,.
And the nine of hearts," said DR..
Daincourt, you have not mentioned that
lately-havc you forgotten it>''
NO, said the lawyer lit is my firm
opinion that round that nine Of hearts the
whole OF the mystery rcvOlycs."